The Dictator review

Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a psychic dictator in a country called Wadiya. He despises Iran and the US and his character is something of a cross between Saddam and Osama, thanks to his beard.

He conducts his own Olympics, acts in his own movies and is sort of a funny narcissist. He also has a fascination to sleep with celebrity babes like Megan Fox. 

His idea of humor is mostly perversely sexual. His trusted advisor Tamir (Ben Kingsley) wishes to bump him off and make Wadiya a democracy so that he can milk billions by letting in other countries to exploit the oil reserves.

But Tamir’s plans go wrong and Aladeen just loses his beard while a dumb double poses to the outside world as Aladeen. This dummy is equally weird and he is manipulated by Tamir so that he can sign the democracy agreement in the UN.

Now, in the US, Aladeen is just a common man to the outside world and only his former nuclear scientist Nadal recognizes him. Aladeen works with an activist Zoey (Anna Faris) at her store. It is inevitable that these two would be a pair by the end of the movie.

Whether Aladeen gets back his identity as the supreme leader of Wadiya, whether Wadiya becomes a democracy and what happens to Tamir and the dummy are the resolution of this film.

The sexual comedy is enjoyable at places while it gets too perverted at other times. Sample these

• A woman with ‘monster melons’ goes about bashing people and other things with her big boobs
• Zoey shows her hairy armpits and Aladeen makes fun of that in the weirdest ways. In fact Zoey is taken for a ride as Aladeen mocks her to be a guy who just grew tits accidentally.
• Zoey teaches Aladeen to masturbate and he takes that as a big achievement and advertises it to the entire store.
• When Aladeen helps a woman deliver her baby he puts his hand in her asshole instead of the vagina
• Aladeen’s  dummy milks a woman’s tits like how he milks his goat
• Aladeen shits right on a woman’s head while hanging on a rope between two skyscrapers

Towards the end, when Aladeen sarcastically makes fun of democracy in the name of trumping for dictatorship, we understand Sacha Baron Cohen’s intentions clearly.

Some of the words and tongue twisters that he pronounces are incredibly funny. The way Sacha says them with a stupid face makes them even more funny. 

This movie on the whole is a crazy ride with some insane sexual comedy. Ultimately when the movie ends, you will laugh. That’s for sure.